• General Notes

  Occupation: ; Farmer; Pvt SC militia Rev. War File # 7523
  
  Francis Summer (b. 1752-d. about 1810) was the fifth son of Johannes Adam Summer and Anna Marie Margaret Jostin, who settled in the Newberry County area around 1752. Francis Summer received a grant of 300 acres of land on Penny's Creek in 1786, for service in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He also served in the State Militia as a private in Col. Philemon Waters' Regiment. Since Penny's Creek is located in the Abbeville District, near the old French-German section at the time many of the German settlers in Abbeville District moved to the Dutch Fork to be with their family members and friends who spoke the same language.
  Francis was married first to Margaret Epting. They had at least three children, Abrahm or Abraham, Eve Ann, and Catherine. Second, he married Christina Hipp and they had at least four children, three of whom were named Sarah, Mary M. and John.
  
  Francis was a member of the first Grand Jury formed in Newberry in 1785, just after the formation of the new county from old Ninety-Six District. In the same year, he was appointed one of the members of the first Road Commission formed just after the Revolutionary War and after the establishment of the new county. He was a planter, operating a store in connection with his farm, as did his son, John, at the same place years later. 

Details of Francis' family with Margaret Epting